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The dumbest thing the AI has ever done?
- Thread starter TheGamedawg
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Oh, I didn't know that Dragon Tail moves last. Probably because Zagato isn't the fastest of my Pokemon anyways. He is slow, and methodical.
Still, at least there was a boost of damage. Even with negative priority, it isn't dumb.
I don't think I've ever laughed out loud for something like this ever. I know others have similar stories, but I never imagined how fun it is when it happens to you.
So, Super Triples in the Battle Maison, right?
The AI sends out Arcanine, Torterra, and Gastrodon and I send out my Slurpuff, Pangoro and Greninja. I KO Torterra and then the following sequence occurs:
The opposing Arcanine used Sunny Day
The opposing Gastrodon used Rain Dance
[End of Turn]
The opponent sends out Abomasnow
It started to hail.
The opposing Arcanine used Sunny Day
Make up your mind, man! Which weather do you want!?
The only thing to complete this battle of the elements was either a Hippowdon or Tyranitar.
So, Super Triples in the Battle Maison, right?
The AI sends out Arcanine, Torterra, and Gastrodon and I send out my Slurpuff, Pangoro and Greninja. I KO Torterra and then the following sequence occurs:
The opposing Arcanine used Sunny Day
The opposing Gastrodon used Rain Dance
[End of Turn]
The opponent sends out Abomasnow
It started to hail.
The opposing Arcanine used Sunny Day
Make up your mind, man! Which weather do you want!?
The only thing to complete this battle of the elements was either a Hippowdon or Tyranitar.
Sounds like a team made to support a Weather Ball Castform, except they forgot the Castform.
Why do they even put teams like this in the game, especially the Battle Maison?
Hey, if the AI wants to give us an easy win, who are we to complain? Hail the stupid AI!
Hail it for loosing for the stupidest reasons, or because of design!
IIRC, the teams in the Maison (aside from pre-determined ones i.e. the chatelaines) are constructed on the spot by randomly selecting from a list of Pokémon in the game's data.
Presumably straight into a Flamethrower.
Sorry about that but that part of the game really bugs me. I think the dumbest thing the AI has ever done in battle is fake out my gengar.
True. In real life, if you beat a bunch of grunts to stop a conspiracy to take over the world, they shoot you in the head the moment you turned your back on them, unless you had your Pokemon kill them first.
But this IS a child's game, and not real life.
I think that's it. Let's not forget that this 12 year old has several elemental monsters that just defeated their elemental monsters leaving them defenseless. Also being a kid I also have a feeling they don't really think you're much of a threat, many times if you talk to them after defeating them they talk down to you as such, tease you, and say they'll won't defeat the boss anyway. At most they'll only think they'll be in trouble for losing, they're not worried one kid will stop their bosses plan (which in the Hoenn stories don't, Team Magma/Aqua DO accomplish their goals despite the player's involvement).
I was in the Petalburg Gym, out of healing items and down to my last pokemon, Numel. By sheer dumb luck, every single one of my pokemon at the time was male, and there's an Ace Trainer in there who has a Delcatty that knows Attract. She almost always used that move whenever I sent out a new pokemon, and she had haxed my entire team to death: "Swampert is immobilized by love!" "Mightyena is immobilized by love!" "Manectric is immobilized by love!" every single turn until she had KOed everything else with Doubleslap without even getting hit once.
So then I send out my last pokemon, a crappy underleveled Numel that I didn't even really want to catch, but it got in my way in Fiery Path and I had an extra pokeball so whatever. And she uses Doubleslap on the first turn and gets all five hits and I'm down to 2 HP, and I only did about 10% damage back to it with Ember. So I was thinking, ugh, I'm going to lose this battle and have to go all the way back to the pokemon center, this is such a waste of time, Delcatty is bullshit, etc. But then I was saved, by a stroke of luck so unlikely that only the pokemon AI we know and love would ever think of it.
She used Attract on my Numel.
Numel had the ability Oblivious.
I hit Delcatty with Ember again.
She spent the entire rest of the battle doing nothing but spamming Attract, for 8 more turns. I ended up winning the battle and smirking to myself all the way through the rest of the gym.
So then I send out my last pokemon, a crappy underleveled Numel that I didn't even really want to catch, but it got in my way in Fiery Path and I had an extra pokeball so whatever. And she uses Doubleslap on the first turn and gets all five hits and I'm down to 2 HP, and I only did about 10% damage back to it with Ember. So I was thinking, ugh, I'm going to lose this battle and have to go all the way back to the pokemon center, this is such a waste of time, Delcatty is bullshit, etc. But then I was saved, by a stroke of luck so unlikely that only the pokemon AI we know and love would ever think of it.
She used Attract on my Numel.
Numel had the ability Oblivious.
I hit Delcatty with Ember again.
She spent the entire rest of the battle doing nothing but spamming Attract, for 8 more turns. I ended up winning the battle and smirking to myself all the way through the rest of the gym.
Good old AI, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. I'm not sure whether to be impressed or utterly ashamed with the AI. And this is an Ace Trainer, too.
I'm still laughing over the time someone in Y's battle chateau used Skill Swap against my Slaking.
I just stared at the screen for about five minutes.
I just stared at the screen for about five minutes.
Fighting Grimsley in White. Led with Cobalion, used SD so I could sweep if it survived a Jump Kick from Scrafty. I never got the chance to find out if it did, because his Scrafty used... SAND ATTACK. OHKO'd the rest, only missed once, against Liepard.
EDIT: Just calced, Jump Kick doesn't OHKO unless crit
EDIT: Just calced, Jump Kick doesn't OHKO unless crit
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Well, at least it wasn't Crunch.
I guess that Sand Attack only held off the inevitable. I originally thought that he swept you, until I remembered that you were probably talking about his Liepard, and that you didn't have one yourself.
BTW, your sig is hilarious.:D I'm wondering where you got that from.
Well, RBY does have really terrible AI... Just look at Twitch Plays Pokemon's battle against Lance.
Don't forget arcanine spamming roar on rock types or gyarados using leer 20 times if you are a grass type.
Although Barrier Agility dragonite is the worst offender on poison types.